John C. Goodman
Forbes
Dallas, TX, United States
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Why Americans Are Not Anxious To Get Back To Work
There are 5 million fewer people employed today than before the Covid epidemic struck and 7.7 million are officially counted as unemployed. → Read More
There's (Cradle to) Grave Waste in Democrats’ $3.5 Trillion Spending Plan
The Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget estimates the bill's true spending isn't $3.5 trillion as touted, but at least $5 trillion. → Read More
People Are Still in Dire Need of Better Insurance Options
The Supreme Court has yet again left Obamacare on the books. Sadly, many Americans are still in need of quality health insurance. → Read More
How Do We Ration Health Care When We Really Have To Do It?: News: The
Because of the coronavirus, the term 'triage' has a more urgent and lethal meaning. → Read More
Do the Media Hate Trump More Than They Hate the Virus?: News: The
In a critical health crisis like the one we are experiencing, no single activity is more important than the role of the news media. People need the best information on the nature of the threat, how they can protect themselves, what to do if they suspect they are infected, etc. On March 25, President Trump conducted a daily briefing on the coronavirus. Attorney General Barr was there to warn peop → Read More
Response to COVID-19 Reflects Trump’s Dramatic Health Policy Reforms
One Trump health policy reform allows terminally ill patients to try drugs that have not been approved by the FDA. The same reform should apply to COVID-19. → Read More
How Would Free Market Health Care Respond To The Coronavirus?
Until recently, Congress outlawed telemedicine in Medicare, except for patients in rural areas, and even then they couldn’t be in their own homes. → Read More
Response To Coronavirus Reflects Trump’s Plan To Radically Reform Health Care
Critics of President Trump’s response to the coronavirus crisis characterize it as knee-jerk and spur-of-the-moment. But many of the recent executive actions reflect a new and beneficial approach to health policy. → Read More
Obamacare At Age Ten. Was It A Mistake?
We were promised access to the type of insurance people used to get at work. We got something that looks increasingly like Medicaid with a ridiculously high deductible. → Read More
How Trump Can Reform The Health Care System Without Abolishing Obamacare
The Trump administration has taken two big steps to improve health care. But Congress must act, too. → Read More
The Dangers In Nationalizing Health Care
In the Bernie Sanders’ version of health care, it would be virtually free. But government would determine what care you get, when you can get it, where you can get it, and how you can get it. → Read More
What The Left Doesn’t Understand About Health Care Prices
Why does the left want to nationalize the entire health care system? → Read More
Obamacare Made Things Worse for Those With Preexisting Conditions
Before Obamacare, those with preexisting conditions were protected under a federal law requiring states to enact measures to watch out for them. → Read More
Where Democrats Go Wrong on Pre-existing Conditions: News: The
This week, Senate Democrats are voting on a resolution to curtail the use of the Affordable Care Act's Section 1332 waivers, which empower states to revamp their failing individual insurance markets. These waivers are a lifeline for states whose individual markets are on the verge of a death spiral. Yet Democrats claim they would put people with pre-existing conditions in jeopardy and are an… → Read More
How To Help The Poor Without Subsidizing The Rich
All too often, burdensome regulations are pricing poor people out of the market for the services they need the most. Let’s carve out essential services that are needed by low-income families and remove the regulations that makie them expensive. → Read More
What I Bet You Don't Know About Health Savings Accounts
Did you know that you know that Health Savings Accounts are the best savings vehicle available under the tax code? Or that you can roll your IRA over into an HSA and, at some point in your life, you are foolish if you don’t? Here are the details. → Read More
Lower Cost, Higher Quality Health Care Is Right At Our Fingertips
Telemedicine is making better care, quicker care and life-saving care available to more patients every day. Thanks to technological breakthroughs, we don’t need to travel to a doctor’s office or a hospital for every medical need. We can get much of our care right in our own home. → Read More
Can The Market Really Work In Health Care?
For as long as I have been in the field, health economics has been dominated by the idea that the free market can’t work in health care. Being a contrarian, I’m prepared to ask: What if the free market could work? What would it look like? → Read More
What Would A Free Market For Health Care Look Like?
One of the more interesting television commercials I see is an ad sponsored by Cancer Treatment Centers of America (CTCA). The message: if you have cancer, we want you. Welcome to a small glimpse of how the market for health care might be different. → Read More
Getting Health Reform Right
Here is something you can take to the bank. If Republicans can’t produce an alternative to Obamacare that solves the real problems of ordinary people, they will never be able to pass a health reform bill. → Read More